Bihar Election Result 2020 Highlights: The NDA held on to its lead over the Mahagathbandhan, passing the 122 seat magic figure early November 11 morning even as RJD emerged as the single-largest party. The Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD)-led ‘Grand Alliance (Mahagathbandhan)’ is taking on the ruling National Democratic Alliance (NDA) comprising Nitish Kumar’s Janata Dal (United), the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and other smaller political outfits. The Mahagathbandhan, which has projected RJD leader and former deputy chief minister Tejashwi Yadav as its chief ministerial candidate, also includes the Congress and other smaller parties. Chirag Paswan’s Lok Janshakti Party (LJP), which is an NDA component at the Centre, fought the polls separately. But the LJP mainly fielded candidates against the JD(U), not the BJP. Polling to elect a new 243-member Bihar Legislative Assembly was held in three phases between October 28 and November 7, amid the novel coronavirus pandemic.
Status of key candidates:
> Tejashwi Yadav: Wins
> Tej Pratap Yadav: Wins
> Jitan Ram Manjhi: Wins
> Bijendra Prasad Yadav: Wins
> Luv Sinha: Loses> Shreyasi Singh: Wins
NDA retains Bihar in a nail-biter; here's the list of key candidates who won
The nail-biting Bihar Election 2020 finally wrapped up late at night on November 10, with the National Democratic Alliance managing to touch the half way mark and Tejashwi Yadav-led Rashtriya Janata Dal emerging as the single-largest party with 75 seats.
The elections to the 243-seat Bihar assembly were held in three phases this year amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
Here is the list of key candidates who won the election.
The National Democratic Alliance (NDA) has crossed the required 122 seats-mark.The RJD-led Mahagathbandhan or Grand Alliance, meanwhile, won 110 seats. Bihar has 243-member legislative assembly members. This effectively means that the BJP-JD(U) combine will form a government in Bihar. RJD, with a win on 75 seats, also emerged as the single-largest party.
JD(U)'s Krishnamurari Sharan wins Hilsa seat by just 12 votes
The JD(U) has won the Hilsa assembly seat in Bihar just by 12 votes, according to the Election Commission website, a result contested by the rival RJD. According to the results updated on the Election Commission website late Tuesday night, JD(U)'s Krishnamurari Sharan alias Prem Mukhiya has polled 61,848 votes, while the RJD's Atri Muni alias Shakti Singh Yadav has got 61,836 votes.
"Results declared," the poll panel wrote in the 'status' column for Hilsa seat late Tuesday night. And in the margin column it wrote 12.
Earlier, around 10 pm, when the poll panel website showed that votes for Hilsa were still being counted, the RJD alleged foul play in the process.
People of Bihar have trusted NDA, Narendra Modi Ji, and Nitish Kumar Ji. Public gave us a clear mandate.
I would like to express my gratitude towards the people of Bihar. This victory is a result of PM Narendra Modi's hard work and guidance. People have elected double-engine govt and rejected 'double yuvraj.
The results for six more seats are yet to be declared. Of these six, BJP is leading in three, JD(U) in two and RJD is one.
RJD leader Tejashwi Yadav won his Raghopur seat by a margin of over 38,000 votes in the result announced late night.
According to the Election Commission, Tejashwi defeated Bharatiya Janata Party''s Satish Kumar by a margin of 38,174 votes.
Tejashwi, who was also the Mahagathbandhan's chief ministerial candidate, had won the Raghopur seat, a pocketborough of the RJD, on his poll debut in 2015 too when the victory margin was 22,733 votes.
According to the latest update on the Election Commission (EC) website, results for eight Assembly seats are yet to be declared. Out of these eight, BJP is leading in four, JD(U) and RJD are leading in two each.
With the three Left parties bagging 13 seats and leading in three others in Bihar, CPI(M) general secretary Sitaram Yechury warned naysayers against writing them off, saying they would have notched up higher numbers in the elections had they been given more seats.
The Left parties contested 29 seats in the Bihar Assembly elections.
"We were clear from the beginning that we have to defeat the BJP. Our strike rate in Bihar is 80 percent and if we had been given more seats, we would have contributed more to the gathbandhan tally," Yechury said.
"Our alliance with the RJD and Congress combined issues of social justice with that of economic justice. One cannot be achieved without the other," he said.
The Election Commission, during its later night presser, said that final stretch of counting is currently underway and that it will take another hour for them to declare the final results. According to the EC website, 13 seats remain to be counted. Out of these 13, RJD and JD(U) are leading in three seats each while BJP is leading in six seats.
Results in 223 seats have been declared, 20 constituencies are left. VVPAT of 5 booths that are to be taken up for counting, those exercises are going. We hope these will be completed soon.
According to the Election Commission website, results of about 20 seats are yet to be declared. Of these 20, BJP leads in 9, JD(U) in 3,RJD in 5,Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) (Liberation) in 2 and Congress in one.
Bihar poll results victory of PM Modi: Chirag Paswan
Lok Janshakti Party president Chirag Paswan described the Bihar polls results as a "victory" of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, sayingthe people have shown their trust in him.
With his party winning only one seat while being instrumental in the defeat of the BJP's ally JD(U) in many seats, Paswan tweeted that he was "proud" that his party did not bend down for power. His party had won two seats in the 2015 polls.
